72 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



high by 12 feet 7 inches in girth, with an estimated cubic contents of timber of 

 223 feet. When I measured it in 1905 it was 95 by 13 feet, but the top and trunk 

 were decaying. 



At Erlestoke Park, Wiltshire, a tree,^ growing near the bank of a lake, was 80 

 feet high by 14 feet in girth at 4 feet from the ground in 1902. 



The following records from Hampshire were reported in Woods and Forests -.^ 

 North Stoneham Churchyard, near Southampton, a tree 12 feet 10 inches in girth ; 

 Cranbury House, near Winchester, a tree 1 1 feet 9 inches in girth ; at Gramwell's 

 Meadow, east of East Tytherley Manorhouse, near Romsey, a tree 85 feet high by 

 10 feet 5 inches in girth, with a stem free from burrs, planted in 1780. These 

 measurements were taken in 1884. At Hale Park, in 1879, there was a tree 75 feet 

 high with a short bole of 4 feet, girthing 18 feet 3 inches. 



The finest tree at Kew, 70 feet high in 1844, is gone, but there still exists a 

 well-proportioned specimen* which stands at the end of the rhododendron dell. It 

 is now (1905) 79 feet high by 9 feet 9 inches in girth. It produces fruit freely 

 every year, but the seeds are always poorly developed and infertile. 



In Scotland a tree was mentioned by Loudon as growing at The Hirsel, 

 Coldstream, the seat of the Earl of Home, which was at that time 100 years old 

 and 20 feet in girth 3 feet from the ground. I was informed by Mr. Cairns, head 

 gardener at the Hirsel, that in 1903 it was slowly decaying, some of the larger 

 branches being gone, but that what remained carry a large amount of healthy foliage, 

 and flowers more or less every year. 



At Drummonie Castle, Perthshire, formerly a seat of the Lords Oliphant, 

 Hunter* mentions a tree 8 feet in girth at 5 feet, and another at Gorthy Castle,^ 

 girthing 9 feet 7 inches at 3 feet, which had been a good deal injured by cattle 

 grazing in the park. He also (p. 400) speaks of a large tree at Castle Menzies, 10 

 feet in girth, but I did not see it on either of my visits to this interesting old 

 place. 



The tulip tree is not mentioned in the Old and Jieniarkable Trees of Scotland, 

 but it grows at Gordon Castle, and even as far north as Dunrobin Castle in 

 Sutherlandshire. 



In the south-west of Scotland there do not appear to be any large trees, the 

 biggest mentioned by Messrs. Renwick and M'Kay" being one at Auchendrane 

 House, Ayrshire, which was, in September 1902, 53 feet by 5 feet 8 inches, and one 

 at Doonside, Ayrshire, which was 46 feet 9 inches by 8 feet i inch. 



At Jardine Hall, Lockerbie, a tree^ measured in 1900 60 feet in height by 

 9 feet in girth. 



At St. Mary's Isle, Kirkcudbright, a tulip tree* was, in 1892, 10 feet 9 inches 

 in girth. 



' Gard. Chrott. 1902, xxxii. 61. ' Issues of April 16 and 23, 1884. 



^ Figured in Gard. Chron. 1890, viii. 219, where it is stated in the text that the tulip tree bears pruning well, and that 

 there is an avenue of clipped trees in one of the courts at Chatsworth. 



* Hunter, Woods, Forests, and Estates of Perthshire, 145 (1883). This is apparently the tree mentioned in Gard. Chron. 

 1890, viii. 388, as being 60 feet in height then, and having recently flowered. 



' L.c. p. 371. 8 Renwick and M'Kay, Brit. Assoc. Hattdbk. 131 (1901). 



' Garden, 1890, xxxviii. 178. M'Kay and Renwick, Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg. Sept. 4, 1894, p. 17. 



